Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Fedora 13 Released - Full featured Linux

Fedora 13
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join. The Fedora Project is out front for you, leading the advancement of free, open software and content.

As always, Fedora continues to develop and integrate the latest free and open source software.

The following are major features for Fedora 13:
* Automatic print driver installation
* Automatic language pack installation
* Redesigned user account tool
* Color management to calibrate monitors and scanners
* Experimental 3D support for NVIDIA video cards Some other features in this release include:
* A new way to install Fedora over the Internet
* SSSD authentication for users
* Updates to NFS
* Zarafa Open Source edition, a new open-source groupware suite
* System rollback for the Btrfs file system
* Better SystemTap probes
* A Python 3 stack that can be installed parallel to an existing Python stack
* Support for the entire Java EE 6 spec in Netbeans 6.8


Fedora 13 Documentation



Monday, June 28, 2010

Linux Mint - New Waves on Linux Distro

Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including browser plug-ins, media codecs, support for DVD playback, Java and other components. It also adds a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, and a web-based package installation interface. Linux Mint is compatible with Ubuntu software repositories.

Linux Mint boasts of a host of new and improved features including a new software manager, backup tool, tweaked interface, improved update manager and Mint4Win.

CD as well as DVD images for Linux Mint 9 are available. The DVD version is just about 100 MB larger than the CD version and simply includes additional wallpapers and packages such as Sun Java, Samba and ttf-DejaVu, which could not fit into the CD.


Featured improvements in this release: 30,000 applications catalogued and reviewable both online and in the new software manager, brand new incremental backup tool for both data and software selection, menu transparency and editable items, USB and Windows installers, 3 years support, look & feel improvements.


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